2025 Top 50 Glaziers Survey

Deadline to complete the survey is April 22. Contact Rachel Vitello, asssociate editor, rvitello@glass.org, with questions. Upon completion of the survey you should see a confirmation message on screen.

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You cannot save your progress in the survey. Be aware that you will need information about:
- 2024 North American contract glazing sales
- number of locations
- number of employees
- general company products and services

If you would like a copy of your 2024 survey responses, please contact Rachel Vitello, rvitello@glass.org.
Contact Information for Glass Magazine

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1. Please tell us who the editors should contact with questions. (Required.)

Contact Information for Public Release

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2. Please tell us who the public should contact with questions about your company or products. (Required.)

Company information

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3. Tell us about your company. (Required.)

Sales and Growth
Sales information will not be published in the magazine. Sales information should reflect North American sales only for commercial projects, not residential or auto glass.

Other information (not gross sales) may be published as a compiled/statistical percentage.

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4. Contract glazing* gross sales for 2024, for the North American market ONLY (This number will not be published. You must submit a number, or range, in order to participate in the ranking) (Required.)

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5. How did gross sales levels in 2024 compare to the previous year? (Required.)

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6. What percentage of your commercial business is new construction? (0 - 100)

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7. What percentage of your commercial business focuses on Interior Glass and Glazing Systems (office spaces, corridors, glass markerboards, mirrors- Division 8 and 10)?

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8. We know there's been discussion in the industry about the differences between Division 8 and 10. Feel free to share your thoughts here to be included in the report, or if you'd rather share them anonymously, email Norah Dick, ndick@glass.org.

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9. Did your company open any locations in 2024? (Required.)

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10. If yes, which locations?

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11. Did your company close any locations in 2024?

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12. How did competition for projects in 2024 compare to the previous year? (Required.)

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13. How did profit margin in 2024 compare to the previous year? (Required.)

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14. How did bid levels in 2024 compare to the previous year? (Required.)

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15. How deep is your backlog?

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16. Has your company made capital acquisitions in the past year? (Check all that apply)

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17. In which geographic markets did you experience the most growth in 2024? (Check all that apply)

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18. Looking ahead, in which geographic markets do you expect to see the most growth in 2025? (Check all that apply)

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19. What is driving growth in this region? [answers may be excerpted for editorial publication]

Market and Services
Please provide some information about your products and services. Responses may be compiled for statistical compilation. Individual answers will not be published unless otherwise noted.

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20. Construction segment: What percentage of your business in 2024 falls into the following categories? Express as a number from 0 - 100. Percentages should sum to 100.

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21. Related to the above - did you see a shift in project type from 2023 to 2024 (i.e. from health care to multifamily)? If yes, what market factors are driving this shift? [answers may be excerpted for editorial publication]

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22. Have you provided contract glazing services for school construction in the past year?

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23. If yes, what percentage of your work on school construction is retrofit?

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24. Are you fabricating unitized curtain wall in-house?

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25. If yes, are there any challenges related to this? [answers may be excerpted for editorial publication]

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26. Are you fabricating glass?

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27. If yes, what kind of glass fabrication?

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28. Which of the following project delivery methods have been used on a project your company participated in during the previous year? (Check all that apply)

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29. What project delivery methods presented the most challenges? Why? [answers may be excerpted for editorial publication]

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30. Is your company doing any 3D modeling/BIM?

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31. If yes, what have been the challenges? The benefits? [answers may be excerpted for editorial publication]

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32. What kind of software does your company use?

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33. Have you worked on a project in the previous year with any of the following specialty glass products (check all that apply)?

Labor and Challenges
Please provide some information about labor and other challenges in 2024. Responses may be published.

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34. What will be major headwinds in 2025? (Check TOP 3)

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35. Please explain your answer. What do you think will be the major challenges ahead in 2025? [answers may be excerpted for editorial publication]

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36. How does the availability of labor in 2024 compare to the previous year?

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37. What is your biggest labor challenge?

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38. What position is the most difficult to fill? (select one)

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39. Please describe how the labor shortage is affecting your company's growth. Answers may be excerpted for editorial use.

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40. What type of workplace wellness programs do you offer to employees (Ex: financial management education, mental health resources, addiction recovery support, etc.)? Answers may be excerpted for editorial use.

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41. Is your company 75 years or older?

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42. If yes, and you'd like to be interviewed for potential inclusion in the magazine feature, please give us the name and email of a person we should contact.

Be on the cover of the July/August issue!
Want a chance for your company, staff or projects to be featured in the Top 50 Glaziers issue (the July/August issue of Glass Magazine)? Send us photos showcasing your staff in the field, your new facility, or photos of projects your company worked on. Large photos could even end up on the cover!

All photos must be high-res to run in print (at least 5 inches wide at 300 dpi resolution). Cover-ready photos will be at least 8 by 12 inches at 300 dpi.

If you'd like us to write up your projects for news, always feel free to send project details and photos to rvitello@glass.org.

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43. Upload high-resolution photos of your project as one zip file or 1-3 single images

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44. Please tell us: the name of the project, location, and any photo credit. (Nabisco Headquarters; Seattle, WA; Photo by Tom Johnson. For photos of employees, provide a short description (Company employees install jumbo glass at Nabisco Headquarters.)

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45. Upload high-resolution photos of your project as one zip file or 1-3 single images

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46. Please tell us: the name of the project, location, and any photo credit. (Nabisco Headquarters; Seattle, WA; Photo by Tom Johnson. For photos of employees, provide a short description (Company employees install jumbo glass at Nabisco Headquarters.)

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47. Upload high-resolution photos of your project as one zip file or 1-3 single images

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48. Please tell us: the name of the project, location, and any photo credit. (Nabisco Headquarters; Seattle, WA; Photo by Tom Johnson. For photos of employees, provide a short description (Company employees install jumbo glass at Nabisco Headquarters.)

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49. Please include WeTransfer, Dropbox, etc. photo sharing link. If you cannot upload at this time, email to rvitello@glass.org.

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